Nassar Khalili

Nassar Khalili was a Brazilian Islamic State sympathizer who was arrested on 21 July 2016 for plotting to attack the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Biography
Nassar Khalili was born in Brazil to a Sunni Muslim family, and he was a member of the Ansar al-Khilafah Brazil support group of the Islamic State. He was a member of a ten-person cell of Brazilian supporters of the terrorist group, and he planned to ship weapons to Curitiba in preparation for attacks in the Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro areas during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro; the IS terrorists sought to emulate the 1972 Munich Massacre. However, the terrorist cell was arrested by Brazilian security forces on 21 July 2016.